guillermo del toro said so many insightful and funny things last night at the frankenstein q&a that i started taking notes. these are all direct quotes. i love this man.
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guillermo del toro said so many insightful and funny things last night at the frankenstein q&a that i started taking notes. these are all direct quotes. i love this man.

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Its nice to be corporeal by which i mean having a physical form with which to interact with the world around you but i will not lie to you there are problems associated
HUGE fan of trees growing in places they should not reasonably be able to
upside down
sideways
out of a rock
upside down in a freakin LAKE
out of an Indiana courthouse
out of ANOTHER
GODDAMN
TREE
none of that is a reasonable expectation!!!
That last one is actually kinda even wilder. It’s a special kind of Japanese tree cultivation to get long, straight tree trunks for building. It doesn’t grow that way naturally but it’s wild that you can train trees to grow that way
AO3 Ship Stats: Year In Bad Data
You may have seen this AO3 Year In Review.
It hasn’t crossed my tumblr dash but it sure is circulating on twitter with 3.5M views, 10K likes, 17K retweets and counting. Normally this would be great! I love data and charts and comparisons!
Except this data is GARBAGE and belongs in the TRASH.
I first noticed something fishy when I realized that Steve/Bucky – the 5th largest ship on AO3 by total fic count – wasn’t on this Top 100 list anywhere. I know Marvel’s popularity has fallen in recent years, but not that much. Especially considering some of the other ships that made it on the list. You mean to tell me a femslash HP ship (Mary MacDonald/Lily Potter) in which one half of the pairing was so minor I had to look up her name because she was only mentioned once in a single flashback scene beat fandom juggernaut Stucky? I call bullshit.
Now obviously jumping to conclusions based on gut instinct alone is horrible practice... but it is a good place to start. So let’s look at the actual numbers and discover why this entire dataset sits on a throne of lies.
It's that time again.
Has centreoftheselights learned the error of their ways and tried to actually collect their data properly this year so as to not misrepresent the popularity of every fandom on AO3? Nope! They're doing everything exactly the same, and as expected, the counts are WAY off (Castiel/Dean didn't even make it on the list this year despite having 6000 new works in 2024, which should've put it in the Top 10).
Do NOT trust this data.
Fortunately, Randomist1031 has done the hard work for us and compiled a 2024 dataset that includes privated fics AND gathers the counts correctly. They've even gone the extra mile and added separate public vs locked counts, percent locked calculations, and common ship names. I can't vouch for the accuracy of every data point but the handful I checked were very close (another benefit of using the "created by" filter method is that it's fairly replicable, unlike certain people's methodology).
Please share this list and use it for fandom analysis instead.
It's interesting to compare the two.
On Randomist1031's list but not centreoftheselights':
Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng
Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou
Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou
Castiel/Dean Winchester
Daemon Targaryen/Rhaenyra Targaryen
Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester
Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson
Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio
Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru
James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Merlin/Arthur Pendragon
Min Yoongi | Suga/Park Jimin
Miya Atsumu/Sakusa Kiyoomi
Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
On centreoftheselights' but not Randomist1031':
Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma
Asmodeus | Ozzie/FizzaRolli (Helluva Boss)
Astarion (Baldur's Gate)/You
Aziraphale & Crowley (Good Omens)
Bill Cipher/Ford Pines
Dazai Osamu & Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs)
Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne
Ekko/Jinx (League of Legends)
Evan "Buck" Buckley & Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV)
Hwang Hyunjin/Lee Felix
Lucanis Dellamorte/Rook
Mikage Reo/Nagi Seishirou
Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper
Sung Hanbin/Zhang Hao
(It's 15 vs. 14 because Randomist1031 included ship 101 due to one of the ships having really inflated work counts from spam.)
Randomist1031 filters the / pairing out of the & one to get rid of commonly cross-tagged things that don't actually have a lot of works about their platonic relationship, which explains a few of these differences, but some I don't really understand.
For example, there were only 157 works for Sherlock/Molly whose latest AO3 update date falls within 2024. Only 351 are backdated, so it doesn't seem to be just a case of an old archive being imported.
Here's my attempt to line the two up in a way that one can follow:

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The perfect ot3 dynamic doesn't exi--
Fujoshi warriors, get on her level
today is wednesday tomorrow is thursday
2024 with bangtan - thank you for not leaving us alone 💜
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Some new kind of scam? It’s giving scam but I also don’t really understand how it’s a scam?? but it’s 100% a scam yeah?
This is happening to multiple people, truly a new low.
PSA: This is an ongoing potential scam.
The JasmineLucas325 account, as well as several others, are suspected of belonging to a ring of sockpuppets/bot farm run by a person who is trying to make money via shady commissions.
They appear to target fic writers on both AO3 and ff.net (and potentially other sites as well) as well as d&d players, probably due to the fact that they're more likely to want to commission specific character art instead of just AI generating it themselves.
Their messages usually contain something along the lines of praising the writing, saying how they'd love to bring your characters to life and an offer to chat about that, with various socials attached. "Jasmine" in particular has been caught messaging several people, all with the same wording, only the fic title swapped out. And yes, unlike the comment bot situations we had previously, these are actual accounts, which is why we suspect there's a person somewhere behind it. All of these accounts were created recently.
As was uncovered by people investigating this situation who contacted the person behind this, the commission prices are inflated and they are suspected of generative AI use and/or art theft. There are also other red flags such as refusing to share sketches, timelapses or WIP shots - which are part of standard vetting procedure.
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(Brief) Twitter thread calling out another one of these accounts and sharing DMs between the suspected scammer and a customer: Here
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If you have received any messages like this, from JasmineLucas325 or other similar accounts, feel free to let me know. We're investigating several accounts and trying to find as many as we can to warn people.
Thank you and stay safe online!
i’m obsessed with this
and then, two months later....
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Do you know anything i can donate to for palestine that's not the gofundmes because the idea of having to choose who needs my money more is just. scary to me they all need it 3: maybe there's a thing that splits/distributes money evenly???? idk but help would be appreciated
Gazafunds actually deals with this anxiety and makes a decision for you if you want. Their home page has a spotlighted fundraiser and the code consider things like how close the gfm is to finishing, when the most recent donation is, etc. So it's randomized to help as many people as possible.
There's also @helpgazachildren which if you donate, you can help multiple people at once since it's a whole mutual aid fund, or at least close to it. Hussam distributes money to people who need it when he's asked.
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 3x02 Murder & The Maiden
jungkook getting on jimin's last nerve 🤬😂
The one thing that I loved discovering abt Jimin is how much he cusses. Not that I thought he was, like, an angel baby who never utters a bad word ever. But, goodness gracious, he has a dirty mouth, heheh!

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